"and there was this feeling there—this overwhelming feeling of anticipated joy and unfettered possibility—that is still palpable in my consciousness. the feeling of good things—unknown and unmentionable yet vaguely familiar—to come. life, in all its glory, sprawled out in front of me in a moment." - shelley mcconkie

Thursday, February 28, 2013

"YOU KNOW, TODAY I AM THINKING ABOUT THE WORLD, AND THE WORD; WHILST JUST ONE LETTER APART, THEY COULD NOT BE MORE OPPOSITE IN THEIR MOTIVES AND INTENTIONS. WHERE THE WORLD ENCOURAGES STRIVING, THE WORD ENCOURAGES RESTING. WHERE THE WORLD SAYS WE NEED SMALLER HIPS, THIGHS AND STOMACHS, AND LARGER BREASTS, MUSCLES, AND EGO’S, THE WORD SAYS WE ARE MADE PERFECT IN HIS IMAGE. WHERE THE WORLD SAYS WE MUST PROVE OURSELVES, THE WORD SAYS JESUS HAS DONE EVERYTHING ON THE CROSS. WHERE THE WORLD SAYS LIFE IS HOPELESS, THE WORD SAYS JESUS CAME TO GIVE US LIFE, AND LIFE TO THE FULL, A LIFE OF HOPE, AND A FUTURE. WHERE THE WORLD INSPIRES US TO FOLLOW TRENDS THAT WILL PASS AND FADE AWAY, THE WORD INSPIRES US TO FOLLOW CHRIST; FOR HE IS THE SAME, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER."-hope-movement.tumblr.com

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

"I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can. "— Kristin Armstrong

Sunday, February 24, 2013

"Between Austria and Italy, there is a section of
the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high
part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to
connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before
there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built
it because they knew some day, the train would come."

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

"The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be."

"these fragments i have shored against my ruins."

"for now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am now."

-1 Corinthians 13:12

"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever by ugly…if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

--Roald Dahl

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows.The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

--Hemingway

"A kind of light spread out from her. and everything changed color. And the world opened out. and a day was good to awaken to. and there were no limits to anything. and the people of the world were good and handsome. and i was not afraid anymore."

--John Steinbeck, East of Eden

To love. to be loved. to never forget your own insignificance. to never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. to seek joy in the saddest places. to pursue beauty to its lair to never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch To try and understand. to never look away. and never, never to forget."

--Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

"Tell me what's the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn't know it constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting

it constantly gets lost in the fog of hope."

--Anna Kamienska

"It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you can say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavours, in the air or on the tongue, half colours, too many."

--Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

--F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

"If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves."

--Junot Diaz

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."

--Isak Dinesen(psuedonym of Baroness Karen Blixen, Out of Africa)

"I also painted a study of a seascape, nothing but a bit of sand, sea, sky, grey and lonely- sometimes I feel a need for that silence- where there's nothing but the grey sea- with an occasional seabird. But otherwise, no other voice than the murmer of the waves."

--Vincent van Gogh, from letter to his brother Theo, 17 Sept. 1882

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”